Volume 1 A Son of Heaven and a Courtier 038 There are many treasures on the top of Yuhuang
Each house in this altar is made of large stones, and it is not half perfunctory. Thinking that the transportation of stone and building materials was extremely inconvenient for the transportation of stone and building materials between the top of the mountain and the road under the mountain, he knew that without great piety and a large amount of money, it would be impossible to build this stone city.
The rooms are divided into different uses, some are stacked with supplies, and some are used for human habitation.
The stone houses where the materials are stacked are all located on the ground floor, perhaps to prevent mildew of grain and rust of weapons, and each room is built impermeable to the wind to isolate the moisture from the mountain. A large amount of rice and noodles, bacon, pickled fish, pickles, salt and other foods were piled up in the house specially used to store grain, which was enough for more than 1,000 people to eat for three and a half years. In another room, a wisp of mountain spring was dug out, and clear water gushed out. Yizhi carefully took some and drank it all, it was really sweet and clear, and it would be sold at a good price if it was in Guangyang City.
"It's just that there's a lack of fresh vegetables." Qiu Yizhi said to himself. As said, fresh vegetables are extremely important to soldiers, and if they are not replenished for a long time, they will not be fatal, but they will also be weak, dizzy, and lose their combat effectiveness. The Youyan army marched to supply and learn from the nomads, driving cattle and sheep as food with the army, but they would also buy supplementary vegetables and fruits on the spot, and no matter how bad they were, they would dig wild vegetables to eat.
"Wouldn't it be beautiful if I smashed this square and reclaimed a few rows of vegetable fields?" Qiu Yi thought as he walked up to the second floor.
Most of the houses above the second floor are for people to live in, because they are built on the foundation of the houses on the ground floor, so there are no terrain restrictions, they are not afraid of stubborn stones, and they can communicate with each other through the inner door. The furnishings of the room are similar to those of ordinary barracks, and the beds and bedding are only placed, and the tables, chairs and benches are just placed, but the walls are all opened with archery holes, which are combined with the soldiers' dormitories and fortifications, and in the event of a surprise attack by the enemy, the army does not need to assemble to listen to orders, and the soldiers can organize defense on the spot in their respective rooms. There were also a few knives, a few bows, and a few arrows scattered in the few stone houses that had not yet had time to be cleaned, all of which were used to defend against the attack.
Seeing this, Yi Zhi couldn't help but sigh that this Yuhuangding General Altar was defended by a cult rabble, which had already made the world's elite Youyan army helpless. If well-trained soldiers were stationed in battle, I don't know what it would be like.
The third floor of the main altar is very different, and the doors of each house are affixed with official and military seals, prohibiting free entry and exit. Qiu Yizhi relied on his special identity, personally removed the seal of one of them, pushed the door in, and saw that a large amount of gold and silver were stored in this house, and there were tens of thousands of taels of gold and silver.
Qiu Yizhi didn't love money, but he saw a scimitar in the corner of the house, the knife was two feet long, but the appearance was extremely simple. Yi Xin thought about how this ordinary sword could be placed in this room full of gold and silver treasures, so he gently lifted it, drew out the blade and examined it carefully. But I saw that the body of the knife was covered with layers of lines, like floating clouds drifting away, and like streams flowing.
Qiu Yizhi stared at it for a long time, but he was a little intoxicated, smiled to himself, and sent the knife back to the sheath with a "swish", and was surprised to see that the tiger's mouth holding the scabbard had been cut open at some point, and it was bleeding, but there was no pain at all. Yi Zhi was shocked to realize that the knife in his hand was a rare treasure, and the strong wind when he returned the knife was extremely sharp, and it could make people feel pain when he cut through the skin. So he found ten gold coins from his hand, fell neatly on the stone case, pulled out his treasure knife and rested on the first gold coin, and with a light press, the pile of gold was cut off like tofu.
"Sure enough, the sword!" Qiu Yi secretly screamed in her heart, "He may be able to save my life one day." So he carefully tied this treasure knife around his waist, which was regarded as his own.
It is not surprising that embezzling booty is a common occurrence in the Han army. Several officers behind Yi Zhi saw that Youyan Wang Yizi was not exempt from vulgarity, and they all looked at each other and smiled.
Qiu Yizhi caught a glimpse of everyone's expressions with his spare eyes, and also smiled tacitly, grabbed the gold that had just been chopped into pieces, and threw it at them, which was both a seal and a reward.
Several pro-soldiers hurriedly picked it up from the ground, holding it in their palms, knowing that they would not be able to save this net worth if they were a hard soldier for a few more years, so they hurriedly bowed their heads and thanked them.
Seeing this, Yi Zhi waved his hand casually and led them out of the room. He inspected several houses in a row, either the residences of some of the backbone of the Heavenly Venerable Sect, or the same mountains of gold and jewelry.
Qiu Yizhi felt a little disappointed and wanted to go downstairs. But he saw an officer holding a torch and striding towards him, and scolded from a distance: "Where did the thief come from? Don't you see a seal on the door? Do you want to die by stealing treasure? ”
When the officer ran closer, he looked at it and recognized it as Qiu Yizhi, and hurriedly bowed down and said: "The little one doesn't know that His Royal Highness the righteous son is here, and he has no mouth to hide, and he asks His Highness to atone for his sins!" ”
Yizhi smiled when he heard this, and didn't help him, and said, "Whose subordinate are you?" It must be your duty to take care of your finances, so dedicated, even if there is no reward, why apologize? As he spoke, he pointed to the treasure knife on his waist and said, "I took this knife privately, do you want to put it in storage?" ”
The man raised his eyes and peeked at the knife, and saw that there were no gems inlaid on the handle and scabbard, and it looked simple and unpretentious, so he hurriedly said: "The small one is a hundred households under His Royal Highness the Second Prince." Since His Royal Highness likes this knife, please take care of yourself, and the little one can turn around and say hello to the second prince. ”
"Hmmm! You speak very well, get up! Yizhi was in a good mood today, so he asked him a few more words, "What are you going to do with a torch in broad daylight?" ”
The hundred households got up and said, "We searched the main altar of the cult and found that there is a library here. The two princes said that these books were all used by the Tianzun cult to deceive people's minds, and they simply burned them. So the little one was ordered to come and burn the book. ”
Qiu Yizhi's eyes lit up when he heard this, he hurried up the mountain, carefully inspected the main altar, and what he did was these classics. Fortunately, he stopped the hundred households who were ordered to burn books, otherwise he would have regretted it as soon as he lit the fire. Thinking of this, Qiu Yi snatched the torch from the hands of the hundred households, shook it vigorously, and threw the torch directly under the cliff outside the stone city.
The hundred households were shocked, and before they could speak, they listened to Qiu Yizhi's instructions: "I have useful use for these books, and I will discuss them with the eldest brother and the second brother, you don't have to worry about it anymore, retreat!" "The hundred households did not know where to offend this Youyan Wang Yizi, lest they be punished inexplicably, and they wanted to leave as soon as possible.
Seeing that the hundred households had run away, Qiu Yizhi turned his head and ordered a few entourages around him, saying, "You hurry down the mountain, call all my 300 personal soldiers, and I want to move the book." These people were all close confidants of Yizhi, and without hesitation, they sang and turned to leave.
Yizhi breathed a sigh of relief, followed the direction of the hundred households, checked room by room, and finally stood in front of an unsealed wooden door. Yi Zhi smiled bitterly and shook his head, knowing that in the eyes of ordinary people, the value of this house full of books was far less than a few ingots of gold, and he was not even willing to paste the seal.
Pushing open the wooden door, there was a rather large library of libraries.
The library was built in a sunny position, and the corners of the pavilion were evenly sprinkled with lime, so that although it was on the top of the mountain covered with clouds and mist all the year round, there was not a trace of mildew and rot. Seeing this, Yi Zhi couldn't help but smile, and snorted: "This Tianzun Sect is very careful, but it's a pity that it's stupid." He looked around the entire library and saw that there were about seven or eight rows of bookshelves, and except for one of them, which showed signs of rummaging, the rest of the shelves were neatly arranged with all kinds of books, and the total number of books was about three or five thousand.
Yizhi felt that the messy bookshelf was strange, stepped forward and took out one, and checked it carefully, but it was the account book of the Tianzun Sect, and couldn't help but smile, and said secretly in his heart: "It must be some kind of guy in the cult who is anxious and greedy for money, came to look through the records, and stole the treasures in the main altar in a targeted manner." He never thought that he would be captured by the officers and soldiers if he couldn't run a few steps, but he just became a porter for the officers and soldiers. Thinking of this, he casually threw down the account book and flipped through it again.
Yizhi came to the nearest bookshelf by the door, took down the top and rightmost books on the shelf, and looked through it, and there were countless tadpoles densely arranged, and no one knew it. Yi Zhi was shocked when he saw it, it turned out that this Tianzun Sect was really spread from the Western Regions, and the classics were all written in the Western Regions, so if you wanted to know what was written in the book, you had to go to find someone who knew the Western Regions language. Shaking his head, he put the book back and took down the second one, but it was written in Chinese, which turned out to be the Chinese translation of the one just now. Yizhi breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that there were already seniors in the sect who translated the Western Regions script, otherwise how could they spread the teachings of Tianzun in the past hundreds of years?
So Qiu Yizhi made up his mind and flipped through them one by one.
Unexpectedly, this Tianzun Sect's collection of books is also classified as "scriptures, histories, children, and collections". The "Sutra" section is the quotations of Tianzun and the ancestors, the least number, and there are only five books in total; The "History" department is the history of the teaching after the establishment of the Tianzun Sect, and the account books and catalogs that have just been read are also included, and the number is the most complex, accounting for most of the space of the library pavilion; The "Son" section is the work of the previous masters, and it also fills two or three bookshelves; The "Collection" Department is the Western Regions technical books that Qiu Yizhi is looking for, and they are arranged at the bottom of the bookshelf, and I think that this Tianzun disciple also attaches the least importance to these books.
Yizhi took out one of them and turned a few pages slightly, but it was a book of farming and tree cultivation in the Western Regions, and in addition to the text introduction, he also drew graphics. Yizhi didn't know anything about farming, he couldn't see anything famous, he changed the book again, and was about to flip through it, but he heard the wooden door "squeak" and was pushed open, and turned to look, his two brothers were standing at the door, and were about to go up to greet him, but he heard Zheng Sen say: "I just said that Yizhi is a smart person, and others are staring at gold and silver treasures, but he is a bookworm here, and he is a person who does great things." ”
Qiu Yizhi hurriedly smiled and said, "Second brother smiled." I just think that although these books are absurd, they will be burned without even reading them, which is a pity, and it may be useful to keep them for a look. ”
Zheng Sen was not stupid, he felt reasonable when he heard it, and nodded heavily: "I'm just a rough man who fights, and I don't understand Yizhi's thoughts." But in the past few days, I finally accepted the clever plan of the virtuous brother, and the virtuous brother said that it was useful, so it must be useful. ”
Yi Zhiwan smiled and said, "If you want to talk about rough people, the younger brother is no exception" said and untied the treasure knife on his waist, handed it to Zheng Sen, and said, "The younger brother just found a treasure knife here, and asked the second brother to taste it, and by the way, give it to me!" ”
Zheng Sen loves swords very much, took it and played with it carefully, and exclaimed: "Brother Xian's vision is really different. The sword and the sword, the foolish brother saw that there were thousands of them, and most of them were not true, but this knife was really ...... Yes. The few swords collected in the foolish brother's mansion are no different from the kitchen knives in the cook's hand compared to it. With that, he handed the treasure knife to Zheng Xin.
Zheng Xin didn't know much about swords, but at a glance, he knew that this knife was a sharp blade that sharpened iron like clay, so he handed it to Yi Zhidao: "After the treasure house of the Yuhuangding Cult Altar is returned to the imperial court, I don't know how much it will be embezzled." All Yi Zhi wants is a knife, and it doesn't matter, it's all on the foolish brother. After a pause, he said, "What the virtuous brother just said, the books here may be useful, I don't know what to find?" ”
Yizhi took the treasure knife, tied it around his waist as usual, bit his lip and said: "The junior brother just flipped through a few pages at random, this Tianzun Sect is very meticulous in doing things, and all the big and small affairs are carefully recorded, which is quite desirable, and it may be possible to find out the whereabouts of this Tianzun Sect Master." Seeing Zheng Xin nodding, he continued, "It's just in a hurry, and I can't see it." I also hope that the eldest brother Rong and the younger brother will transport these books back to Guangyang, and will investigate carefully with Mr. Zhongli. ”
Saying this, Zheng Xin was already aware of the importance of these books, and hurriedly said: "Brother Fool also has this intention, and I am willing to read it with Mr. Zhongli and Brother Xian!" ”
Zheng Sen listened to it on the sidelines but said: "The little brother doesn't have the kung fu to sit firmly in the study, don't force me to drag me when the big brother arrives!" ”
The three of them laughed together.